I’m sorry to anyone who is getting bored of my cinematography, but I have such fun making these things, even if they are rubbish. The latest efforts are views of two things from Burning Life. Ms Rebekka Ruff told me about the Steam Powered Gumball Factory and clearly I had to visit that - but on the way I also noticed Jillian Callahan’s telescope, and felt that that deserved a piece as well.
Burning Life - Telescope on Vimeo
Burning Life - Gumballs on Vimeo
Unfortunately I am producing these little clips at a rate that seems to be exhausting my uploading allowance on Vimeo. I do like Vimeo very much, it is far nicer, prettier and easier to use than Google Video, and I’m afraid we do not use the Y*uT*be word around here. However, it restricts one to a mere Thirty Megabytes of Information per Week, which sounds like an awful lot but in actual fact isn’t. Particularly as one’s allowance begins anew on a Sunday, and I tend to engage in such projects on Sundays rather than Saturdays. Because of this I have been forced to produce things in piddly little 320×240 format.
I suppose that I should examine the Burning Life areas a little more thoroughly before they vanish.
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October 7, 2006 at 11:37 pm
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September 15, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Erbo Evans
I’m quite frankly surprised at their upload limits. When one deals in video information, Thirty Megabytes is not very much at all. One may hope that they will increase this limit as their service becomes more popular and they can bring additional storage on-line.
The only other drawback to Vimeo is that it appears to require version 8 of the Flash plug-in, which renders the in-line preview windows inaccessible to users of Linux (since Macromedia seems to never have gotten round to updating the Linux Flash player past version 7). Not a huge drawback, mind, but an annoyance nonetheless, especially since the other two services you mention here work properly with the version 7 plug-in on Linux.
September 15, 2006 at 5:07 pm
ordinal.malaprop
Yes, it’s not a lot, even if it’s weekly, and the Flash 8 problem has been mentioned before… I find Google Video a pain to use, and I am irrationally prejudiced against YouTube, and I think that Vimeo has been rather unfairly overlooked and would like to help promote it, but there are certainly drawbacks.
September 15, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Trep Cosmo
Ooh okay, nevermind. You’re aware that us *nix users can’t view your stuff. I won’t rehash it then.
September 15, 2006 at 9:04 pm
ordinal.malaprop
You should be able to if you select the “download” link from the page on Vimeo. I have tested that with VLC and it should work fine.
As soon as I have a way to post things in a better format I will….
September 19, 2006 at 5:51 pm
Rosa Bentham
have you tried ourmedia.org?
September 21, 2006 at 11:26 am
ordinal.malaprop
I haven’t… and attempting to do so now, I see that their site appears not to be working. I shall try to remember to take a look later on.